Washington v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating “[t]he general rule is that statutes are prospective in the absence of an express provision by the legislature”
• “[A]n opinion letter of the trial judge is a part of the record on appeal without any requirement that it be filed with the clerk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-01-20· cited 319×
• Frye v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-06-13· cited 272×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-10-06· cited 232×
• Mitchell v. Mitchell
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-04-07· cited 70×
• Gaynor v. Hird
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-01-29· cited 54×
• Wilder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-06-11· cited 53×
• Briley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-11-26· cited 51×
• Price v. Price
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-05-05· cited 48×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 43×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 38×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 38×
• Wolfe v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-02-28· cited 35×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-04-04· cited 31×
• Hines v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-04-22· cited 29×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-03· cited 24×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-02· cited 23×
• Turnbull v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 22×
• Pollino v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-01-13· cited 21×
• Grier v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-05-29· cited 19×
• McGill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-05-20· cited 19×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Wade v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1949-04-25· cited 1,511×
• Illinois v. Somerville
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-27· cited 1,368×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1975-09-17· cited 79×
• Spradlin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-01-25· cited 48×
• Rollins v. Bazile
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-11-30· cited 28×
• Old Dominion Iron & Steel Corp. v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-03-10· cited 20×
• Forester v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 18×
• Jefferson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 15×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-09-19· cited 14×
• Hart v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1936-04-13· cited 3×